Automate (album)

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Automate
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Studio album by Forma Tadre
Released 1998
Genre Ambient
Length47:25
Label Metropolis Records
Producer Forma Tadre
Forma Tadre chronology
Navigator
(1997)
Automate
(1998)

Automate is the second studio album by the electronic band Forma Tadre. It was released in 1998 on Metropolis Records. This album is quite different from the group's previous record, Navigator , as it has a more ambient feel.

Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments and circuitry-based music technology. In general, a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means, and that produced using electronics only. Electromechanical instruments include mechanical elements, such as strings, hammers, and so on, and electric elements, such as magnetic pickups, power amplifiers and loudspeakers. Examples of electromechanical sound producing devices include the telharmonium, Hammond organ, and the electric guitar, which are typically made loud enough for performers and audiences to hear with an instrument amplifier and speaker cabinet. Pure electronic instruments do not have vibrating strings, hammers, or other sound-producing mechanisms. Devices such as the theremin, synthesizer, and computer can produce electronic sounds.

Forma Tadre is a German musical project that can best be described as electro with a feel of soundtracks and ambient but has also been categorized as industrial or electronic body music. The only member of Forma Tadre is Andreas Meyer, also known as Andy Meya.

Metropolis Records Music label in the USA

Metropolis Records was founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1993. The label releases material in the electro-industrial, synthpop, future pop, darkwave, and gothic music genres, although it is open to releasing any genre of dark alternative music, whether electronic-based or post-punk.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "La Cité" – 3:24
  2. "Passage North" – 1:13
  3. "Sinus Park" – 6:42
  4. "Lo Rez Skylin" – 4:09
  5. "Le Musée des Appareils" – 10:09
  6. "Node Rituals" – 4:36
  7. "Automate" – 4:31
  8. "Dagon" – 5:47
  9. "Passage Center" – 1:08
  10. "L'Exodus" – 5:46

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